Written for the interested reader with no laboratory training, this treatise explains how the living body works: the basis of life, the cell as the unit of structure, the fluids of the body, internal secretions, the heart and circulation, breathing, digestion and the nervous system, all with attention to how the knowledge was won.
A thorough Edwardian survey of physiology; its science is of its day, but its explanations remain clear. Download the free EPUB.